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Samsung’s Launching a VR Streaming Service for Its Face-Phone Headset

One of the biggest problems with Gear VR at launch is the general lack of stuff to do. Samsung is now trying to fix that content conundrum with Milk VR, a free video streaming service designed specifically with the company’s latest face wearable in mind. Launching as a technical preview, Milk VR aspires to be…

Gadgets Darren Orf

Skip the Gnomes and Put a Giant Charging Triceratops In Your Garden

Kids obviously love dinosaurs, but here’s a secret: most adults do too. It’s just that as you grow older it becomes less socially acceptable to wear T-rex PJs to bed. But that doesn’t mean you can’t indulge your dino love elsewhere. In fact, what garden wouldn’t be instantly improved with a 20-foot long Triceratops guarding…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Use Google Inbox To Snooze Emails From Your Friends or Family

Relatives are great, aren’t they? But do you really need to see their emails popping into your inbox every hour? Wouldn’t it be better if you only heard from them once a day? Or even once a week? Google’s new Inbox platform makes this simple to achieve, and you can apply the same approach to…

Gadgets David Nield

Hey, Remember When People Used To Eat Arsenic As A Health Supplement?

Probably not, unless you’re well over 100 years old. In the 1800s, arsenic began being marketed as a health supplement, even though it had been a known poison for thousands of years. So why were people suddenly eating it on purpose? The Arsenic Eaters Styria, in the southeast of Austria, is a nice place to…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Hackers Uploaded a Worm to South Korean Nuclear Plants

Here’s a scary thing that happened: South Korean authorities found evidence that a worm was recently removed from devices connected to nuclear power facilities. The news comes a little over a week after the country’s nuclear plant operator received warnings on Twitter that its network had been compromised. Thankfully, the reactor controls were not infected.…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Meet The Pediatricians Who Assist Anti-Vaxxers

Last month, a school in Michigan temporarily closed as whooping cough began spreading among the 1,200 students. It’s the latest example of the public health risks caused by low vaccination rates — a growing national problem made worse by anti-vaxxer parents who are able to get help from sympathetic pediatricians. Image: CDC. Most states require…

io9 Mark Strauss

Stunning Proof That The Helicarriers In Captain America 2 Weren’t Real

I don’t want to blow your mind, but did you know that giant, flying SHIELD helicarriers in the popular Marvel movie weren’t actually built, launched into the air, destroyed, and then crashed into Washington DC? It’s true! As it turns out, these massive airships were in fact made by something call com-pyoo-turs! I kid, of…

io9 Rob Bricken

Our Favorite Gizmodo Posts of 2014

We posted many thousands (!) of stories in this past year, but these are the ones that stuck with us. Some are dumb, some are serious, two are about cults. And each of them of them is worth another look. Here are the Gizmodo staff’s picks for the best things we posted in 2014, in…

Tech News Gizmodo Staff

What Would People Be Most Surprised To Learn About Your Job?

In every field of expertise, there’s information that’s common knowledge inside of the field and anything but to the rest of us. Today, we want to know about the information from (or about) your job that would most surprise people to learn. Maybe you want to clear up some misconceptions about your job, or maybe…

io9 Ria Misra

This Bluetooth Speaker With 50 Hours of Battery Life Can’t Die

Portable Bluetooth speakers have liberated our music from wires, but they are only awesome technology if they are not dead. To that end, Ecoxgear has two new products it’s showing off. One has 50+ hours of battery life, the other has a built-in solar panel that’ll keep it charged. These speakers cannot die. The Ecoxgear…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Incredible Images Show A Python Devouring An Entire Wallaby

A park ranger in Australia’s Nitmiluk national park recently stumbled upon an extraordinary scene: an 8-foot long olive python swallowing an entire agile wallaby joey. All images: Paul O’Neill/Parks and Wildlife Commission NT. As reported in The Guardian, Ranger Paul O’Neill arrived at the scene shortly after the python killed the wallaby. The snake was…

io9 George Dvorsky

This R2-D2 Figure Is So Articulated It Could Probably Teach Yoga

He can roll around, hobble along on two feet, and apparently even fly at one point in his astromech career, but as far as robots go, R2-D2 never seemed that articulated. At least until the folks at Kaiyodo inducted the droid into their Revoltech line, which is known for having some of the most posable…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Two of America’s Most-Hated Companies Want to Be One Extra-Hated Mess

There are so many horrible companies in the world that make their profits by stewing in consumer misery. According to a just published list of this year’s most hated companies, the worst are unsurprisingly Time Warner Cable and Comcast. Yup, the two giants that want to merge. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-most-unpopular-company-in-america-is-2014-12-29 The list this year comes to us…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

2014 in one insane minute

NSA leaks, Ebola, ALS ice bucket challenge, terrible earthquakes, Nicki Minaj twerkin, and the rest of 2014 condensed in a one-minute Animation Domination High-Def video. Pop an Ambien and wait 10 minutes before you click play. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Here’s Your Chance To Name A Crater On Mercury

It’s been nearly four years since the Messenger spacecraft arrived at Mercury, and during that time it’s exceeded its mission goals, sending more than 250,000 images back to Earth. Faced with an unexpected surplus of real estate, the International Astronomical Union wants your help naming the planet’s craters. Thus far, the IAU has given official…

io9 Mark Strauss

The 7 Most Important UI and UX Ideas of 2014

This year, we saw Google introduce a sweeping new design language to overhaul is long list of products. We saw independent designers building their own hardware. And more than anything, we saw experimentation on a huge scale—resulting in one of the most eventful and interesting years for UI and UX design in recent memory. End-of-year…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

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Watch. Drool. Go eat your grub. That’s all. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Wonder Woman’s Invisible Jet And Gorilla Grodd, In One Glorious Lego Set

Lego’s DC Comics Superheroes line has been home to some fantastic sets, but this might just be the best:A Lego Invisible Jet! Gorilla Grodd! The Flash! A Bat-Mech! And even better – it’s out this week! Gorilla Grodd Goes Bananas – OF COURSE IT’S CALLED THAT TAKE MY MONEY YES PLEASE THANK YOU – doesn’t…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Which Major Villain Is Daredevil Saving For Season 2 Or 3?

Oscar Isaac claims that everyone’s Star Wars theories are completely off the mark. Is there a good reason why we haven’t gotten an announcement about a standalone movie starring Ben Affleck’s Batman? And Krysten Ritter talks about being cast as Jessica Jones. Spoilers now! Top image: Daredevil Star Wars Oscar Issac says that the Internet…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

You Have To Solve a Sliding Puzzle To Change Lenses On This iPhone Case

If you’ve come to rely on your smartphone as your primary camera, you’ve probably found yourself frustrated at its lack of zoom or even macro capabilities. Clip-on lenses can vastly improve its capabilities, and taking a cue from those sliding puzzle games that have you re-arranging tiles to form an image, the Puzlook iPhone case…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Samsung’s Launching a VR Streaming Service for Its Face-Phone Headset

Skip the Gnomes and Put a Giant Charging Triceratops In Your Garden

Use Google Inbox To Snooze Emails From Your Friends or Family

Hey, Remember When People Used To Eat Arsenic As A Health Supplement?

Hackers Uploaded a Worm to South Korean Nuclear Plants

Meet The Pediatricians Who Assist Anti-Vaxxers

Stunning Proof That The Helicarriers In Captain America 2 Weren’t Real

Our Favorite Gizmodo Posts of 2014

What Would People Be Most Surprised To Learn About Your Job?

This Bluetooth Speaker With 50 Hours of Battery Life Can’t Die

Incredible Images Show A Python Devouring An Entire Wallaby

This R2-D2 Figure Is So Articulated It Could Probably Teach Yoga

Two of America’s Most-Hated Companies Want to Be One Extra-Hated Mess

2014 in one insane minute

Here’s Your Chance To Name A Crater On Mercury

The 7 Most Important UI and UX Ideas of 2014

Gorgeous food porn overload

Wonder Woman’s Invisible Jet And Gorilla Grodd, In One Glorious Lego Set

Which Major Villain Is Daredevil Saving For Season 2 Or 3?

You Have To Solve a Sliding Puzzle To Change Lenses On This iPhone Case

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